Prognostic molecular markers in early breast cancer

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 109-118

  Esteva, Francisco J ^a   Hortobagyi, Gabriel N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological tumor markers; Breast cancer; Genomics; Prognosis; Proteomics

Indexed keywords

2 METHOXYESTRADIOL; ALPHA INTERFERON; ANGIOSTATIN; BETA INTERFERON; CATHEPSIN D; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CYCLIN D1; CYCLIN E; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ENDOSTATIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FLUOROURACIL; HORMONE RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 12; KI 67 ANTIGEN; METHOTREXATE; MOLECULAR MARKER; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN PS2; SOMATOMEDIN C; TAMOXIFEN; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; TRASTUZUMAB; TUMOR MARKER; UNINDEXED DRUG; UROKINASE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DNA MICROARRAY; EARLY CANCER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; PROTEOMICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

APOPTOSIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 2342552056     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr777     Document Type: Review

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